Speaker Interview

I’m Lætitia Avrot. I first worked with PostgreSQL in 2007 for the
Géoportail project. (Géoportail is a comprehensive web mapping service of
the French government that publishes maps and geophysical aerial
photographs for France and its territories.) Then my company offered a DBA
job and I took it.

I first learnt on PostgreSQL and 6 months later, I had to work with
Oracle and SQL Server too. I had the chance to work in environment with
high avialability constraints, high loads, high confidentiality and high
security projects.

Last year, I decided to focus on my PostgreSQL skills and I became a
teacher and consultant for Loxodata, a PostgreSQL experts company.

Have you enjoyed previous pgDay Paris
conferences, either as attendee or as speaker?

I love community events! I went to pgDay
Paris last year. I am eager to come again and proud to have been
selected as a speaker this year!

What will your talk be about, exactly? Why this topic?

Last year, I decided to strengthen my involvement to the PostgreSQL
community. So I started reading about how to contribute, what I could do
and so on. But I didn’t wanted to mess up with the great job that
PostgreSQL is…

So I had a hard job learning I could produce a patch. Once I understood
there was no magic mumbo jumbo in the process to create a patch, I created
a very simple one.

I decided to share that experience with others, assuming there might be
other people out there that don’t dare producing a patch or that
don’t know how to help such a beautiful project as
PostgreSQL.

What is the audience for your talk?

Anyone can follow that talk, as you don’t need to be a developper
to be able to help the PostgreSQL project.

What existing knowledge should the attendee have?

No need to have any knowledge to follow that talk. You just need to be
curious!